LIFE: Part 2

Archive for the ‘Sailing’ Category

Posted from Ibiza, Spain.We left Mar Menor to pass through the bridge at 8am – only to find that the bridge didn’t open until 10! Oh, well. We just dropped anchor there and waited for a while. As it happened it worked out for the best probably anyway. As soon as we were out of (Click to Read More...)

Yep! The new rigging is finally  up and seems to be working. It was a BIG job, so I am glad I don´t have to do that for another decade. But it needed doing and the new synthetic ropes are very nice and a lot lighter than the old stainless steel. My parents came our (Click to Read More...)

We finally got our new Dynex Dux shrouds and put them up (with a little bit of hassle because of the length, but more on that in another post). Good thing too – when I got the old shroud down I could see that it had already pulled out about a 3 millimeters. Imagine (Click to Read More...)

Posted from Gibraltar.We had it all figured out. A neighbor in the marina lent us Colin Thomas’s guide to sailing the straits (yes, the same Colin from Summer Breeze that we sailed with two years ago), so we had all the gen on the tides, which are very complicated. This book is the definitive work, (Click to Read More...)

Posted from Almonte, Andalucía, Spain.We just left Sevilla 2 days ago. We had a great trip back down the River again. First day made it to about half way, and the next morning we weighed anchor and set off at flood time. It was a lot more traffic around this time, ships, motor boats, maybe (Click to Read More...)

Posted from Rio Guadalquivir, Spain.Well..Sailing through the river was different from being at sea. The scenery through the 40 miles of the river was very different. We started off through some very flat territory that looked almost like Holland. Gradually it became a bit more treed and then we started to see some hills inland. (Click to Read More...)

Posted from Bonanza, Spain.After being up half the night with me being sick with stomach cramps, we then arose with the dawn and set off from our anchorage outside the Guardiana river. The wind was a gentle 10 kts from the north, so we hoisted sails and glided straight towards a spectacular red sunrise. (Click to Read More...)

Posted from Aground at Culatra, Portugal.Well, we aimed to leave out the east end of Culatra first thing in the morning on an ebbing tide. We almost made it, but then decided to take a nice coffee break on a private little sandy island. Well, it became an island about half an hour after we (Click to Read More...)

Did you enjoy the beautiful picture of our boat at the beach? Yes that was on Noel’s last blog. The truth is: I was sitting in front looking for shallows and Noel told me it was very deep there, over 5m he said. So I came and sit at the helm with him and within (Click to Read More...)

Yes, I finally got around to going up the mast to measure the standing rigging. The rigging is now over 10 years old, so due for replacement. The problem with stainless steel rigging is that you get crevice corrosion, which means that the steels gets eaten away in the areas where you can’t see it (Click to Read More...)